Webex App Now Available for Apple Vision Pro

[MacRumors]

Cisco today announced the launch of a Webex video conferencing app designed for the Apple Vision Pro. The app is designed to provide an immersive meeting experience that fills the space around the user.

The Webex app supports Personas, allowing Vision Pro wearers to have a visual representation of themselves in video calls while wearing the headset, and it also works with spatial audio.

Webex for Apple Vision Pro takes full advantage of the powerful capabilities built natively into visionOS. After joining a Webex meeting, you can arrange individual participant videos and a separate shared content window that scale to life-size with intuitive pinch and drag gestures. You can use the infinite canvas of Apple Vision Pro to resize and re-arrange these windows, enabling you to collaborate without being bound by a fixed screen. Your persona is a dynamic, natural representation of your face and hand movements that allows others to see you in Webex while you're wearing Apple Vision Pro. With these flexible layouts, multitasking has never been better.

Webex features such as AI background noise removal, real-time translations, closed captions, and live polling are integrated into the app. Meetings can be transferred between the Vision Pro and the Mac or the iPhone by opening up the Webex app and tapping the join button.

Webex can be downloaded from the App Store on Apple Vision Pro.

Article Link: Webex App Now Available for Apple Vision Pro

 

[acgmph]

And again, no other participant is wearing AVP and no personas in these demos & marketing materials.

 

[KENESS]

And again, no other participant is wearing AVP and no personas in these demos & marketing materials.

That's the only thing I wanted to see when I played the video... Alas.

 

[citysnaps]

And again, no other participant is wearing AVP and no personas in these demos & marketing materials.

Perhaps it's because not everyone is required to use an AVP with Cisco's software. Could be because Cisco only had one AVP at the time the video was made.

 

[spaxxedout]

I’ve been using it. It’s solid, but hoping they add messaging. You can’t even do messages from the web app and it’s crucial.

I would certainly not do a persona in a meeting yet. Too distracting. But chat would be great.

 

[Realityck]

And again, no other participant is wearing AVP and no personas in these demos & marketing materials.

The “Simpsons” is truly a Vision-ary series. The world’s most clairvoyant cartoon has done it again. This time the Matt Groening-created animated comedy has been credited with forecasting the rise of the Vision Pro, Apple’s much-hyped virtual reality headset that is currently blowing up the tech sphere.

 

[Ctrlos]

Imagine spending $4000 on a device designed to keep people away and then using it to communicate with them.

 

[AlastorKatriona]

Imagine spending $4000 on a device designed to keep people away and then using it to communicate with them.

Imagine joining a business meeting with a persona.

 

[deebinem]

Imagine joining a business meeting with a persona.

"I’m here live. I’m not a cat."

 

[mdriftmeyer]

This demo shows your point of view with the Apple Vision Pro in use and how enhanced the organization and large scale conferencing can happen within your field of view w/o the need for an 80" Flat Panel Wall Display.

 

[AlastorKatriona]

"I’m here live. I’m not a cat."

In certain circles, just joining a meeting with a virtual background is considered inappropriate. Can just imagine what personas will do.

Why they heck didn't they just go with Memojis?!?! Those would be a fun alternative to the "camera off" state in most video conferences. The personas are creepy and will never be accepted. Memojis are whimsical enough to be enjoyed without needing the creep factor.

 

[ghanwani]

Webex at the bleeding of video conferencing cementing in their leadership position.

 

[Surf Monkey]

And again, no other participant is wearing AVP and no personas in these demos & marketing materials.

Yeah. Total marketing image fail. “Look at all your colleagues. The ones who will be snickering about how idiotic your force ghost 'persona' looks.”

 

[Surf Monkey]

Imagine spending $4000 on a device designed to keep people away and then using it to communicate with them.

Oh, don’t worry. This will keep them further away than ever before.

 

[Octavius8]

Can’t wait to have a webex call when everyone turns their camera off!
They have to see my Persona, but I see their actual videos?. Not fair.

 

[mrgraff]

Sure, I'll use Webex on my Apple Vision Pro. As soon as my employer pays for it.

 

[Nick.haley]

YouTube thumbnail says ‘Vison’

 

[aidler]

Not really useful. Wouldn't be acceptable in the company I work for.

 

[chineseguy38]

It's a kind of silly. Other people can't see your eyes or real person with Vision Pro during webex meeting. So what's the point of that?

 

[840quadra]

So if wearing one and joining a camera-on video, do others see a Memoji of you?

It's a kind of silly. Other people can't see your eyes or real person with Vision Pro during webex meeting. So what's the point of that?

I swear the app is for the C-Level people that rarely have their cameras on in the first place .

Honestly in 100% agreement with your viewpoint.

 

[wgaller]

Dose anyone understand the irony that no one uses WebEx anymore??

 

[jacobgkau]

YouTube thumbnail says ‘Vison’

Their copy also described "a separate shared content window that scale to life-size." Looks like a team at Cisco needs a proofreader.

 

[jacobgkau]

Dose anyone understand the irony that no one uses WebEx anymore??

Work in a Fortune 25 company and you'll see that people are absolutely still using WebEx. That said, almost nobody using it is going to be in a position or doing work that's appropriate for wearing a Vision Pro.

 

[wikiverse]

For the love of God, can we please not have endless 'XXXX app now available for apple vision pro' posts on macrumors?

Yes, developers are going to release apps for it, but EVERY iPad OS app is available on AVP unless the developers specifically opted out.

The only app that most people will actually care about is Netflix, and they're not going to waste their time with it until there are millions of units not just sold, but in active use. Companies like Netflix will not make a single additional dollar in revenue from making a dedicated AVP app. People will subscribe to Netflix regardless. It's just an added cost for them and every other company.

This is the real Achilles Heel for the AVP. It's a computer monitor, not a computer and so it is primarily a media consumption device, not a productivity device. Media companies obtain $0 in additional revenue or profit from supporting and maintaining dedicated apps for a product that most people can't afford and will never buy.

 

[b0fh]

Cisco today announced the launch of a Webex video conferencing app designed for the Apple Vision Pro. The app is designed to provide an immersive meeting experience that fills the space around the user.

The Webex app supports Personas, allowing Vision Pro wearers to have a visual representation of themselves in video calls while wearing the headset, and it also works with spatial audio.

Webex features such as AI background noise removal, real-time translations, closed captions, and live polling are integrated into the app. Meetings can be transferred between the Vision Pro and the Mac or the iPhone by opening up the Webex app and tapping the join button.

Webex can be downloaded from the App Store on Apple Vision Pro.

Article Link: Webex App Now Available for Apple Vision Pro

Finally. A version of webex that dosn't default to full screen. I hate that. HATE IT